Approaching Australia Day Post #03

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*made in China

This and so much more to celebrate:
- Climate and environment, don't trash it
- Stable enough political system to withstand current low ebb, vote for values
- Sport and life, get into it and value the precious moments
- Arts, always in need fo funding and equality
- Freedoms, we do take for granted
- Larrikin humour and appropriate 'tall poppy' syndrome
- Distrust for corruptible authority... fair enough
- Opportunities and safety nets
- Community by and large valued and embraced

Yet, at the same time:
- The gap between rich and poor grows
- Crime and the motives
- Social dislocation and problems are growing
- Impacts and loss of indigenous community
- Shattered Islander dreams for so many of their children
- Cruel inhumane failure towards refugees and people seeking asylum
- Religious intolerance
- Racism & fear expressed most unhelpfully by Pauline Hanson and others
- Lack of visionary political leadership

"Beds Are Burning" Midnight Oil
Out where the river broke
The bloodwood and the desert oak
Holden wrecks and boiling diesels
Steam in forty five degrees

The time has come To say fair's fair
To pay the rent To pay our share
The time has come A fact's a fact
It belongs to them Let's give it back

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning

The time has come...

Four wheels scare the cockatoos
From Kintore East to Yuendemu
The western desert lives and breathes
In forty five degrees

The time has come...

How can we dance when our earth is turning...

The time has come...

How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning...
Songwriters: James Moginie / Martin Rotsey / Peter Garrett / Peter Gifford / Robert Hirst
Beds Are Burning lyrics © O/B/O Apra Amcos